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The DOE Finally Admits That LNG Isn’t a Get-Out-of-Climate-Crisis Free Card

17.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

What the Biden Admin Can Still Do to Defuse the LNG Bomb Before Trump Grabs the Trigger

At the very least what the administration can and must do is tell the truth: More LNG exports are not in the public interest.

04.12.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Hey America, the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Trying to Tell You What to Do

18.11.2024 4

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

As Trump Forfeits US Climate Leadership, We the People Still Have a Role to Play

Many of us can join in a genuinely global citizens’ fight for rapid action.

13.11.2024 9

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Last Night the Cord Connecting Us to FDR Was Snapped

06.11.2024 4

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Look Up: The Scariest Part When We See the Big, Big, Big Picture

As a new study once more makes clear, raising the temperature is by far the biggest thing humans have ever done; our effort to limit that rise must be...

23.10.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Sleepless and Fearful When Hurricane Milton Made Landfall

10.10.2024 5

Common Dreams

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Death and Destruction From Helene Show Climate Crisis Isn't in a Bargaining Mood

30.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

As a new study once more makes clear, raising the temperature is by far the biggest thing humans have ever done; our effort to limit that rise must be...

22.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Some Bright News for a Dismal Week

Solar panels have, over the last months, suddenly gotten so cheap that they’re now appearing in massive numbers across much of the developing world.

17.09.2024 3

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

If Trump Wins in November, Life on Earth Is Likely to Get Far, Far Worse

Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP; Unsplash This story was originally published by the  Guardian and is reproduced here as part of...

13.09.2024 100

Mother Jones

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Solar Power vs. The Darkness of Trump

We desperately need clean energy now. That’s what this election is about.

08.09.2024 8

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

A Groundbreaking UK Climate Win Shows Why Elections Matter

30.08.2024 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Democratic Climate Heroes... and Villains

The reminder that there’s no automatic connection between a D next to your name and some courage on climate comes from many spots around the...

23.08.2024 6

Common Dreams

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Trump and Musk Team Up for Absolute Stupidest Climate Discussion in World History

13.08.2024 5

Common Dreams

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Senate Dems: Don’t Let Manchin Do Big Oil One Last Favor

Manchin’s latest attempt at permitting reform would try and force the approval of huge new LNG export terminals along the Gulf Coast, which are both...

26.07.2024 8

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

Something approaching a miracle has been taking place in California this spring. Beginning in early March, for some portion of almost every day, a...

27.06.2024 10

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

When It Comes to the Green Transition, Can Human Intelligence Beat Human Greed?

When we were busily converting to color television there was not a giant industry pulling out every trick to stop us making that choice.

11.06.2024 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

"Et Tu, Hochul?" Betrayal!

With her flip-flop on congestion pricing, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, not the youth-led Sunrise Movement, is the real climate traitor.

07.06.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever

05.06.2024 5

The Nation

Bill Mckibben

Images of Climate Change That Cannot Be Missed

I can remember, a quarter century ago, when photographers would call me fairly regularly to ask where they should go to take pictures of global...

28.05.2024 10

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

Why Biden Should Run on Climate

It’s a strong triple threat to say: Trump will take away your rights. He will take away your democracy. And he will take away the planet you’ve...

24.05.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Ex-Presidents, Banks, Car Companies, and Restaurants Selling Out Earth’s Future

16.05.2024 70

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

It’s a Climate Election Now

Trump’s reported billion-dollar offer to fossil-fuel executives shows that this is the key year to save the planet.

15.05.2024 30

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

Are the Dems Finally Ready to Stand Up to Big Oil?

A May 1 Senate hearing on the industry’s history of deception is a signal of what a second-term Biden administration might be willing and able to...

03.05.2024 40

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Biden Administration’s Plan to Make American Homes More Efficient

In recent days, the Biden Administration has been on a remarkable roll when it comes to the environment, with one key announcement after another...

26.04.2024 20

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

Capitalism Is Acting Truly Suicidally on Climate

If Amazon and Apple and Microsoft wanted to avoid a world where, by century’s end, people had 60% less money to spend on buying whatever they plan...

18.04.2024 30

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Numbers on Climate Tell Us We’re Not Moving Fast Enough

Speeding up the necessary transition to renewable energy requires political mobilization to break the power of the fossil fuel industry.

12.04.2024 9

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Is the Fight Against Climate Change Losing Momentum?

The morally right side doesn’t lose the crucial battles: the arc of the moral universe is long, but it does bend toward justice. We know that lesson...

07.04.2024 40

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

The Next Few Years Will Decide What Kind of Future We Leave for My Grandchild

Everyone’s job this decade is to arrest the sudden and sickening lurch upward in temperature, so that there’s somewhere at least a little stable...

31.03.2024 50

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Climate Crisis Calls for Wisdom—Not Artificial Intelligence

There’s no way we can build out renewable energy fast enough to meet this kind of extra demand—it’s going to be at the bleeding edge of the...

23.03.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

‘Climate Superfund’ Laws Could Make Big Oil Clean Up Its Own Messes

If a chemical company pollutes a site, the superfund law has been a way to make it pay for the remediation—so if Vermont’s flooding cost its...

17.03.2024 9

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Transcendent Thrill of Watching the Tour de France

I live in the mountains of the Northeast, and normally the last thing I want in the spacious days of summer is something to watch on TV. But this year...

07.03.2024 100

The New Yorker

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Exxon Keeps Choosing Shareholder Returns Over the Planet

05.03.2024 7

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

When the Big Oil CEO Blames You for the Climate Crisis His Industry Created

We simply “waited too long,” said ExxonMobil's top executive last week. But never mind, the important thing is that we made “above-average...

05.03.2024 8

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Year Without a Winter

We’ve just come through the warmest December and January ever measured globally, and February seems certain to follow.

01.03.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

A Skiing World Cup Comes to the United States

With the planet having just endured the hottest twelve months in human history, it’s not surprising that winter has been a dreary affair across...

22.02.2024 4

The New Yorker

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Climate Inaction Is a Betrayal of the Young, and They Feel It

Our institutions—from the White House to the university president, from the bank CEO to the labor leader, from the newspaper editor to the religious...

21.02.2024 20

Common Dreams

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Our Financial System Is a Suicide Machine

Last week, Bank of America engaged in perhaps the single most irresponsible about-face of the climate era.

07.02.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

It's Huge! What Today's Massive Climate Wins Means—And What Comes Next

That this is a huge victory can’t be said strongly enough—for the people in the Gulf who have fought so long and hard as well as for the planet.

26.01.2024 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

This Could Be Start of the Biggest Climate Victory of All

Yes, there are always devils in the details. And it doesn’t guarantee long-term victory, but it sets up a process where victory is possible.

24.01.2024 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Launching a Sweet Climate Campaign to Urge Costco to Drop Citi

The campaign is designed to get the world’s third largest retailer to pressure its bank—Citi—to stop funding fossil fuel expansion.

21.01.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Sign Up Today for Some (Very Civil) Civil Disobedience to Stop LNG

Next month you can join with others who "think it is an honor to rise in defense of the planet we love, and the places where we live."

12.01.2024 6

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

All Is Not Lost! Some Battery News to Charge You Up

If the villainy of the fossil fuel industry or the hard work of climate politics are weighing you down, wait until you hear about the future of energy...

05.01.2024 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Most Important Thing That Happened This Year Was the Heat

And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.

28.12.2023 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Can We Help Biden to Help Himself by Ending This LNG Buildout?

Such a win would make it easier to boost this beleaguered presidential campaign—which has got to be a central focus for anyone worried about the...

23.12.2023 20

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Sentences of the COP28 Deal Won't Save the Planet—We Will

The global climate agreement that emerged from Dubai is literally meaningless—and potentially meaningful. Now it's up to us.

13.12.2023 10

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

The Future of Climate Action Doesn’t End With the Outcome of COP28

Language doesn’t translate into action; it just gives activists one more weapon to use when they return from Dubai to the nations, states, cities,...

09.12.2023 5

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Why 'Abated' Is Now the Most Dangerous Word in the World

The point of climate negotiations should not be to produce a deal, it’s to stop the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And that means a...

03.12.2023 10

Common Dreams

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